Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Korean 707 should have been spotted by Soviet radar when it was as many as 500 miles offshore. Yet it not only flew unchallenged through the 200-mile-wide air defense zone that the Soviets maintain off their shores, but charged along for at least 18 minutes over Russian territory before fighters intercepted...
...Indeed, the Soviet pilots radioed their base that the plane had been shot down. Eventually, reported Copilot Cha Soon Do, one of the interceptors reappeared ahead of the 707 in what seemed to be a "follow me" position. The Koreans tried to comply, but could not: the lead-footed Russian roared off too fast...
...were the Russian pilots so trigger-happy? Western experts speculate that the Soviets might have been more than normally jittery about security in the Kola Peninsula area because of an embarrassing incident that occurred a few weeks earlier: a light plane flown by a daredevil Swedish pilot landed on a lake near Leningrad to pick up three would-be Soviet defectors; although the rendezvous failed, the pilot managed to fly away scot-free...
...Russian officials have tried to counter charges of hip shooting by Soviet pilots by insisting that the 707 had taken evasive action "for more than two hours" before it was forced down. Meanwhile, Korean Air Lines announced that henceforth only new DC-10 jumbo jets would be used on the Seoul-Paris run. The DC-10 is equipped with a sophisticated inertial navigation system that is almost foolproof...
...night before the birth of her first child, Russian-born Ballerina Natalia Makarova was at the barre. And the day after? "I was doing stretching exercises in bed." Now that Son Andrei Michael (named after Prince Andrei in War and Peace) is three months old, Makarova, who is married to San Francisco Businessman Edward Karkar, is in Manhattan practicing for her May 10 return to the American Ballet Theater. Dancing, she says, is "more of a joy now than ever. It's more of a challenge." Between rehearsals, Makarova, 37, squeezes in time with Andrei...